Help on Deleting Words in Mail Subject LIne

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hi,
I’m a newbie scripter and trying to figure out how to remove the words FWD:, RE:, REMINDER: from the subject line of Mac Mail messages. Here is some script I modified off the web, which does not seem to do anything. Can anyone of you geniuses help me to debug this script? Thanks.
– Process inbound mail and automatically remove prefixes like FWD: and Reminder:

using terms from application “Mail”

-- Trims "FWD: FW: RE: Reminder:" from the beginning of the subject 
on trimSubject(theSubject)
	try
		set myList to {"Reminder"}
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
		set MyPrefix to item 1 of theSubject's text items
		if MyPrefix is in myList then
			set MyResult to text ((offset of ":" in theSubject) + 1) thru -1 of theSubject
		else
			set MyResult to theSubject
		end if
		-- trim leading/trailing spaces 
		set MyResult to my trimSpaces(MyResult)
	on error
		set MyResult to theSubject
	end try
	-- Restore delimiters to default value 
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
	
	return MyResult
end trimSubject


-- Main loop to process multiple messages 
on perform mail action with messages theMessages
	try
		set theMessageCount to count of theMessages
		repeat with theMessageIndex from 1 to theMessageCount
			my processMessage(item theMessageIndex of theMessages)
		end repeat
	end try
end perform mail action with messages

end using terms from

#2

Hi,

the subject property of an incoming mail is read only, you can’t change it

#3

Thanks, Stefan.